2 May
2002
2 May
'02
7:34 a.m.
At 12:06 PM 5/2/2002 -0700, Stan Sieler wrote:
Darn...sounds like a subset of what I use. I'd be
interested
in knowing more about TAP (with an eye towards adopting use of it),
and would suggest some possibly missing features might be:
- ability to flag if the current tape record had a
recovered read error (obviously, not all hardware/OS's support
getting that information)
- ability to flag if a particular tape record had a hard error
while reading it
I've always thought the classic computer collector community
needed a tool and meta-format like this for every format of
media (floppies, tapes, MO, Zip/Jaz, hard disks, CDs, etc.).
I think there's tremendous value in an automated tool that would
"sniff" a tape without necessarily copying all the files to disk.
- John